{"id":117,"date":"2017-02-27T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/?p=117"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:09:59","slug":"03-march-alexandru-cioba-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2017\/02\/27\/03-march-alexandru-cioba-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"03 March &#8211; Alexandru Cioba (UCL): Symplectic Topology and Contact Dynamics in Low Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudoholomorphic curves (pioneered by Gromov in &#8217;85) have become a staple of the study of low dimensional TQFT&#8217;s over the past decades. Before one encounters Symplectic Field Theory, for which the analysis of spaces of such maps is a central object, we pause along the way to investigate some interactions in low dimensions; we look at 4 dimensional symplectic cobordisms with contact type boundaries, where we will state a result that extracts unknotted orbits of the contact dynamics (on the boundary) out of a purely topological setting (on the symplectic 4-manifold). Conversely we will see how dynamical constraints on the contact manifold sometimes suffice to classify the 4 -manifold up to diffeomorphism or even symplectomorphism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudoholomorphic curves (pioneered by Gromov in &#8217;85) have become a staple of the study of low dimensional TQFT&#8217;s over the past decades. Before one encounters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2017\/02\/27\/03-march-alexandru-cioba-ucl\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}